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Wing-Benjamin Trust Fund Uw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Public Safety & Disaster$80kHealth$53kEducation$42kYouth Development$33kArts & Culture$17kHuman Services$16kEnvironment$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MAINE$15,000
GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$10,000
MCH INC$6,500
PINE TREE SOCIETY$5,000
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$5,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN NE$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $5k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $5k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $4k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $4k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $3k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$246k · 11 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$246k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+57%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HG
    HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • HO
    Hospice of Southern Maine
    6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +34%
  • PT
    PINE TREE SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Susan L Curtis Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue ×11
  • KV
    KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +57%
  • TS
    THE SUMMER CAMP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
2
Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation

The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.

Philanthropy
3
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
4
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
5
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
6
Wiscasset Public Library

Wiscasset public librarys goal is to provide access to innovateive library services, delivered in an efficient and effective manner that will assist everyone to contiune to grow and learn throughout their lives. provide

Education
7
The Well Ne

The Well's mission is to deliver real solutions in behavioral health through compassion, innovation, and collaboration. By building an inclusive community, we offer comprehensive treatment and resources to empower individuals of diverse…

Health
8
The Maine Special Educationmental Health Collaborative

The organization's mission is to serve its students, their families and their sending school districts through well coordinated educational, clinical and consultation services.

Education
9
Waypoint Maine Inc

Waypoint Maine provides a comprehensive array of programs that each year provides essential services and support to over 1,000 children and adults with special needs.

Human Services
10
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
11
Children's Center Early Intervention & Family Support

The Children's Center, as a nonprofit organization, provides quality, family-focused services for children; specializes in meeting the developmental needs of children with special needs by offering programs which encourage individual…

Health
12
Adoptive & Foster Families of Maine

Adoptive and foster families of maine inc. provides support services for adoptive and foster parents, and kinship providers. affm provides the training, guidance, knowledge, and resources needed to handle complex issues as families open…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodfords Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MAINE — $80,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF MAINEMCH INC — $26,500 · OtherMCH INCIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGER — $10,000 · OtherTURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGERGOOD WILL NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND — $7,000 · OtherGoodwill Industries of Northern NE — $5,000 · Other+2 more — $5,500 · OtherPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $22,000 · EducationPINE TREE SOCIET…GARDINER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · EducationGARDINER LIBRARY…WOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES — $7,500 · EducationWOODFORDS FAMILY…HARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARDY GIRLS …Hospice of Southern Maine — $23,000 · Human ServicesHospice of…THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC — $1,988 · Human ServicesTHE NORTHE…WILHELM REICH INFANT TRUST CORP — $17,225 · Arts & CultureMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $7,500 · Science & TechThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $5,200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$149,000Education$39,500Youth Development$30,000Human Services$24,988Arts & Culture$17,225Science & Tech$7,500Recreation & Sports$5,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILHELM REICH INFANT TRUST CORP — $17,225 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTURNER PUBLIC LIBRARY PORTLAND TRUST COMPANY MANAGER — $10,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $5,200 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Northern NE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC — $1,988 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Foundation IncME24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Elsie & William Viles Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Waterville Area Women's Club · The Mimi Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Wing-Benjamin Trust Fund Uw funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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